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January 2015

‘Too many pound pets, not enough homes’ in 2015

January 30, 2015Comments are closed.advocacy, council pound

  Stats, stats, stats. Nothing else makes many in animal welfare more cray-cray, than the idea that we should be strategising based on figures, not feels. Meanwhile, from the number of cats that can reproduce on a hot day, to the number of pets produced by puppy farms who are shipped by Fedex direct to dog fighters; […]

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Lost Dogs Home vigil and broken trust

January 25, 2015Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home

Outside the Lost Dogs Home lay floral tributes to the pets who have lost their lives.   A vigil held yesterday, saw hundreds of people visit the Lost Dogs Home to lay a floral tribute to the pets who have lost their live unnecessarily, and to call for the resignation of organisation’s board and management. […]

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A break from regular programming – good news Friday

January 23, 2015Comments are closed.adoptions

After the excitement of the last few days, I think we could all use a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down. Happy long weekend!

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Where the hell is Graeme Smith?

January 22, 2015Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home

  Today, the Chairman of the Lost Dogs Home Andrew Tribe defended the Home against allegations that the organisation maintains a ‘kill culture’; Andrew Tribe – “In the past, and I’m talking in the years past, yes we used to keep them (dogs) for a minimum of eight days and then many of them were […]

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Tipping point

January 21, 2015Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home

  There is a massive backlash (again) to the high kill rates of the Lost Dogs Home (again) after they oopsie-killed pets (again). So strong has the backlash been on social media this time, that the organisation issued a statement from Andrew Tribe, Chair, The Lost Dogs’ Home, in part; For years our staff on […]

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The Lost Dogs Home – a quick and dirty research guide

January 19, 2015Comments are closed.Lost Dogs Home

  A LOT of people are talking about the Lost Dogs Home today and many are contacting me asking for more background info. This page is to help people take a short, or a deep, look at the history of the Home. Happy reading!   Brief; A friend to pets? A review of policies and […]

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Angus

January 18, 2015Comments are closed.council pound, Lost Dogs Home

* * * * *Update 20th January: Eating crow Article title ‘Angus Needs to go Home’ changed to ‘Angus’. Angus hasn’t gone home. He’s not on the couch sleeping as his owner told me last night. He’s not happy and healthy at home – hanging out with his family. He’s still at the Lost Dogs Home. […]

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The Lost Dogs Home still stuck in a brutal past

January 13, 2015Comments are closed.council pound, Lost Dogs Home

  One of the basic tenets of animal ‘sheltering’ is to offer pets shelter. If something goes wrong with the pet/owner relationship, shelters are the ones the community expects – and pays handsomely – to step in and protect the animals. Sometimes this will be because a pet is lost. Sometimes it is because the pet is […]

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Before you start a Facebook page for your pound

January 8, 2015Comments are closed.council pound, marketing

  Most pounds don’t need a facebook page. They really don’t. News that this month, Facebook has again dropped the organic reach of ‘pages’ – or the vehicle most pounds and shelters use on social media to promote their pets. Now we’re bringing new volume and content controls for promotional posts, so people see more […]

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Pet Ownership in Australia 2013

January 7, 2015Comments are closed.advocacy

    Every three years The Animal Health Alliance of Australia, an association of pet health companies, commissions a research company to undertake a survey of pet owners and non-pet owners in Australia – the Australian Pet Ownership Survey. The findings of this survey are used to help these companies determine their strategies and identify pet industry trends and […]

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